ADJECTIVE
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transmitting light; able to be seen through with clarity
lucid air
a pellucid brook
transparent crystal
the cold crystalline water of melted snow
could see the sand on the bottom of the limpid pool
crystal clear skies -
(of language) transparently clear; easily understandable
pellucid prose
a luculent oration
writes in a limpid style
lucid directions
a crystal clear explanation
a perspicuous argument
How To Use pellucid In A Sentence
- The septum pellucidum stretches across the interval between the genu of the corpus collosum and the columns of the fornix, separating the frontal horns of the two lateral ventricles.
- It is the largest Echinodorus, with large cordate leaves and typically with discernible pellucid dots on the blades.
- Aim:To prepare chemically deglycosylated porcine zona pellucida antigens DGZPB and DGZPC from porcine ovaries and characterize their immuno-reactivity for of developing contraceptive vaccine.
- These data indicated that the effect of antisera to the zona pellucida would mainly block fertilization and interfere early embryo development, but exists individual differences.
- I have read the story a dozen times, never actually understood it, but also have never failed to draw inspiration and encouragement from Ballard's pellucid writing and the amazing and surreal images. The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction
- As we have come to expect and learned to treasure, he is not content merely with his sinewy, epigrammatic, pellucid prose, and does not rest only upon his gift of narrative, his unparalleled expository powers, and his eye for the telling detail.
- As in Mantegna, whom he admired, Burne-Jones's drawing and coloration are sharp and pellucid.
- The translucent and shining waters of the calm sea covered fragments of old Roman villas, which were interlaced by sea-weed, and received diamond tints from the chequering of the sun-beams; the blue and pellucid element was such as Galatea might have skimmed in her car of mother of pearl; or Cleopatra, more fitly than the Nile, have chosen as the path of her magic ship. Introduction, I.1
- This morning the rain swept away, the clouds rolled back, and we were blessed with pellucid blue skies and sunshine from dawn till dusk.
- THE river Little St. Juan may, with singular propriety, be termed the pellucid river. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti